In boxes made of ticky tacky and they all look just the same.

住在用廉价材料制成的盒子里，看上去一个样子。

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Unlike the baby boomers, whose big fear was that "we'd all live in ticky-tacky houses, " says Howe, millennials fear that "strange people with motives we don't understand could be lurking among us."

不像在婴儿潮出生的人，”他们最大的恐惧是住在简陋的房子里”，Howe说，“跨世纪的一代害怕的是不明动机的陌生人潜伏在我们之中。”

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All of a sudden, those earlier, ticky-tack items seem worth looking into.

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Its determined casinos and ticky-tacky nightspots have spawned a gangland war in recent years that has scared residents far more than the impending handover.

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